From blogger to billionaire, Canva's co-founder on what failures at Google Wave taught him
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From blogger to billionaire, Canva's co-founder on what failures at Google Wave taught him

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 202620 min

Who studies law but then forgets to apply for any graduate jobs because they've started blogging about web design and javascript? Cameron Adams, the billionaire co-founder of design app Canva. He did eventually land a coveted job at Google (thanks to that blogging), but failure on its Google Wave project ’ led to an introduction to Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht, whose vision for making design accessible to everyone became Canva. In this interview, Cameron Adams reflects on the twists, setbacks and connections that shaped his entrepreneurial journey, and why he doesn't fear AI in th edesign process. Presented by Le...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I'm Ileman Enkokello, Shopify Pissed Come, C. Vustola. Hello, this is Business Daily on the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne. Today I'm speaking with Cameron Adams, who's the co-founder and chief

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product officer of Canva. Now Cameron, Canva has more than a quarter of a billion people using it every month. It's generating billions of dollars in revenue and you've personally gone from a web designer to one of Australia's wealthiest people. So when you hear all that, does some of that like not feel real to you sometimes?

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It is great to be here, Leanna. And yes, it definitely doesn't feel real a lot of the time, particularly when someone like you reads out all those stats. It is a bit of a reminder of how far we've come. Well, let's go right back. Where are you from? What was it like growing up where you were from

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